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On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections by Alice Petry 9781572336421
€41.71Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon - tens of millions of copies have sold worldwide - there is surprisingly little... -
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition by Ruth Bernuth 9781479828449
RRP: €34.50€29.70How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to... -
Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities by Emma Cox 9781474443203
RRP: €45.22€38.32Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.About... -
The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Park
€74.46Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human-dolls, automata, puppets-proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned... -
Yeats and Modern Poetry by Edna Longley 9781107622333
RRP: €28.55€24.24Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely... -
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory by Daniel Carey 9780199677597
RRP: €85.68€85.66Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this... -
Williams Pantycelyn by Saunders Lewis 9781783169627
RRP: €29.74€22.37Un o gyfrolau mwyaf dadleuol yr ugeinfed ganrif yw Williams Pantycelyn gan Saunders Lewis, ac ymhlith yr astudiaethau beirniadol mwyaf cynhyrfus i ymddangos erioed yn y Gymraeg. Cynigiodd y gyfrol ffordd newydd i ddehongli athrylith yr emynydd o... -
Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature Farah Mendlesohn 9780415872898
RRP: €57.11€49.75British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and... -
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by S. Ellis 9780582248816
€38.10This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider... -
The Voyage of the <I>Argo</I>: The <I>Argonautica</I> of Gaius Valerius Flaccus by Seneca 9780801861789
RRP: €31.54€27.72The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius... -
The Fables of Odo of Cheriton by of Cheriton Odo 9780815623267
€24.25This is one of the first complete collections of medieval Latin fables to appear in modern English. Odo of Cheriton (c. 1185- c. 1247) wrote sophisticated fables, filled with great wit and humor, yet highly moral, even didactic, in keeping with the age... -
Principles of Poetry by Sakutaro Hagiwara
RRP: €22.60€19.90This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) was not only an original poet but also a perceptive and... -
The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China by Thomas Kelly 9780231209632
RRP: €35.70€27.72Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines... -
Beautiful Angiola: The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach by Jack Zipes 9780415968089
RRP: €54.73€47.75In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set... -
Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe by Thomas A. DuBois
RRP: €33.31€28.73Focusing on particular characters, situations, or emotions-usually with little or no explicit plot-lyric song poses interpretive challenges to the listening audience. Without an overt plot, how does one understand what a song is about? Are there rules or... -
The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England by Mark Fortier 9781138257269
RRP: €59.49€51.77Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes-this begins a list of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'. In this study Mark Fortier addresses the concept of equity from early in... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503638648
RRP: €30.93€24.80Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of... -
Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology Virginia Blain 9781408204986
RRP: €44.02€43.01There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth century. This title offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian... -
Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Fiona Cox 9780198802587
RRP: €139.83€100.85This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this... -
Walt Whitman and British Socialism: 'The Love of Comrades' Kirsten Harris (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) 9780367870515
RRP: €47.59€41.72This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman's reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She... -
The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan 9780872866898
RRP: €15.46€10.27The Beat Generation is one of the great homegrown countercultures of the United States, but in fact its writers traveled widely and most of them lived abroad for periods of time. Their travels were a vital source of inspiration, and in turn they inspired... -
Romantic Shades and Shadows by Susan J. Wolfson 9781421425542
RRP: €66.05€58.13Haunting's consequences for the literary imagination.Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language,... -
Iago: The Strategies of Evil by Harold Bloom 9781501164231
RRP: €19.04€10.91From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities.Few... -
Minima Philologica by Werner Hamacher
RRP: €29.74€25.79Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and... -
Shakespeare and Directing in Practice by Kevin Ewert
€37.16When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh contexts for Shakespeare's work? Part of the innovative series Shakespeare in Practice, this book... -
The Winter'S Tale by Judith Dunbar
RRP: €95.20€67.46This illuminating study of The Winter's Tale in performance in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries contributes to understanding the growth during that time of high critical esteem forwhat is now one of Shakespeare's frequently performed plays... -
Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700 by Emma Depledge
RRP: €27.36€24.59Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history... -
French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK by Irving Goh
RRP: €47.59€41.72This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that... -
The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse by Alan Rudrum 9781551114620
€59.18The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one... -
Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture Bernhard Klein 9780754606208
RRP: €160.65€139.56This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between... -
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism by Joseph Childers
RRP: €41.65€33.01-- Times Literary SupplementMore than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as... -
Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel by Lennard J. Davis
RRP: €33.31€28.73"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real...The value of Davis's book is that it explores the... -
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry by Antony Rowland
RRP: €89.25€80.61This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new... -
The Gist of Reading by Andrew Elfenbein 9781503603851
RRP: €24.98€21.86What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends... -
William Blake: Selected Works by Peter Otto 9780192868053
RRP: €28.55€26.62This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to explore Blake's... -
Science Fiction - The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future: Volume One, Prometheus to the Martians Thomas Lombardo 9781785358531
RRP: €35.69€30.02An evolutionary and transformative journey through the history of science fiction from the innermost passions and dreams of the human spirit to the farthest reaches of the universe, human imagination, and beyond. '...a grand vision of the role of science... -
Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature by Roy Scranton 9780226637310
€27.41Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political... -
Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy by Christina Mazzoni 9781487502669
RRP: €63.07€51.66Through a close reading of key texts, including poetic and spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their introduction during the medieval period through to the present... -
Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy by Matthew Oliver 9781476687131
RRP: €34.50€28.62While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary worlds entirely out of language, yet the writing style used to construct those... -
Abysses by Pascal Quignard 9780857422446
RRP: €22.61€19.28Pascal Quignard is an enigmatic author whose writings rove with great poise across the worlds of literary and artistic endeavour, classical and modern, across folk tale, myth and legend, and yet encapsulate moments of intense present experience, evoking...